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Deep fakes are coming and we aren’t ready
In case you haven’t already been scared silly by the concept, “deep fakes” are a new classification of videos wherein the faces of the subjects of the videos, usually short clips from movies or talk shows with easily recognizable actors, are replaced with a different face. While skilled video and movie special effects editors have
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Popular Android app became malware vehicle
I’m pretty sure most of us pay very little attention when our mobile phones ask to update the installed apps, even if during that process your phone asks if its OK to grant new permissions to an app that needs access to your contacts, camera, phone or local filesystem. The app is already installed on
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Even the Ransomware is big in Texas
Ransomware attacks are on the rise. Depending on which security company you get your news from, the percentage increase from 2018 varies from 110% to a whopping 365% as reported by Malwarebytes Labs. Also important to note: attackers are going after government institutions in the US in a noticeable way. Since the start of 2019,
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Two for Tuesday Part 2: More Malfeasance, Misuse and Morons
There are so many reports of this nature that I literally can’t even. My vacation can’t come soon enough, but in reality I’m just going to be worrying about all of you staying safe in the face of widespread negligence and malfeasance. Read on if you dare: AT&T employees took bribes to plant malware on
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Two for Tuesday: Big Companies mishandling your data
It’s a day ending in “Y” so that means yet another company CEO is on the news apologizing for exposing your PII to the internet. This time around it’s Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank having to say sorry for letting a hacker get access to approximately 100 million US and 6 million Canadian credit card
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Equifax Breach Settled with FTC for $575-700M
As reported here and everywhere, the 2017 breach of Equifax credit reporting agency exposed critical PII (personally identifiable information) for 147 million Americans. It remains equally notorious for Equifax’s botched handling of the breach as well as the thundering silence (until now) from the government on what should be done to address the appalling privacy
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